Jan Primus wrote:Woodshedding is an old term for someone playing along with the group, generally leaning on the others for support.

I understand it to be when someone takes themselves off the scene for a while in order to do some serious practise ("woodshedding"), to return later in order to blow everybody else off the bandstand with their new chops. A good example being when Charlie Parker took himself off into the woods for a number of months, returning with his whole new conception of jazz.

Well that certainly sounds better than mine. It was explained to me that way by a bunch of old barbershop singers who encouraged you to woodshed off someone who really knew the part.

Ahhh Barbershop, one of those things that is a blast to do , but it has the same problem as being caught riding around on a moped. You just dont want your friends to see you doing it. Before I really hack off the moped riding intelligentia here, I am kidding OK!
That was an oxymoron wasnt it? Hehehehe I really make myself laugh sometimes...